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the laws of fines would have ceased to be implemented from among the Jewish people, as they would not have been able to adjudicate cases involving these laws due to a lack of ordained judges. This is because at one time the wicked kingdom of Rome issued decrees of religious persecution against the
What did R' Yehuda ben Bava do? He went and sat between two large mountains, between two large cities, and between two Shabbat boundaries: Between Usha and Shefaram, i.e., in a desolate place that was not associated with any particular city so that he not endanger anyone not directly involved, and
When their enemies discovered them, R' Yehuda ben Bava said to the newly ordained rabbis: My sons, run for your lives. They said to him: My teacher, what will be with you? R' Yehuda ben Bava was elderly and unable to run. He said to them: In any case, I am cast before them like a stone that canno
This proof is refuted: There may have been other rabbis performing the ordination with R' Yehuda ben Bava, who were added in order to reach the quota of 3 rabbis, and this fact that they were not mentioned is due to the honor of R' Yehuda ben Bava, who was the greatest among them. The Talmud asks:
§ R' Yehoshua ben Levi says: There is no ordination outside of Eretz Yisrael. The Talmud asks: What is the meaning of: There is no ordination? If we say that they may not adjudicate cases involving laws of fines at all outside of Eretz Yisrael, that is difficult: Didn’t we learn in a Mishnah (Makkot